Back in 2011, Microsoft and GE aounced that they are combining their healthcare tech assets to start a new 50-50 joint venture named ‘Caradigm’. Microsoft contributed healthcare related intellectual property to this joint venture, including the following:
- Microsoft Amalga, an enterprise health intelligence platform
- Microsoft Vergence, a single sign-on and context management solution
- Microsoft expreSSO, an enterprise single sign-on solution
Caradigm was focusing on improving patient care, advancing the health of populations and reducing healthcare costs. Its enterprise software portfolio encompasses all capabilities critical to delivering effective population health management, including data control; healthcare analytics; care coordination and management; and wellness and patient engagement.
Caradigm this week aounced the appointment of Neal Singh as CEO and they noted in the press release that Caradigm became a wholly owned affiliate of GE Healthcare earlier this month. This is surprising given the fact that Microsoft didn’t make any public aouncement about their decision to sell their 50% stake in Caradigm to GE Healthcare.
We have reached out to Microsoft for their Idea and we will update the post when we get the response from them.